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Lisbon was built across seven hills on the north bank of the Tagus estuary, whose vast expanse ebbs and flows with the tides from the Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays, Lisbon sprawls over considerably more than seven hills: the city proper is 85 square km ...AARP, 1 month ago

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Signature experience in Spain & Portugal - The West Australian View over central Lisbon and the Tagus River from the Edward VI Park. Picture: Gemma Nisbet Gemma Nisbet enjoys the luxury condensed version of Portugal and southern Spain. As the ...

25 Feb 2015 Portugal's Order of Engineers believes that the true cost of the new Barreiro container terminal on the south bank of the Tagus river in Lisbon will be more expensive than originally claimed. They estimate the cost at €827m, ...

Split from its river by the 19th-century arrival of the railway, the Portuguese town of Vila Franca has been made whole again by Lisbon architect and designer Miguel Arruda. His library and its connecting bridge straddling the railway tracks is at ...

Lisbon is the perfect Valentine's date -bright, charismatic, naturally good-looking, fun-loving and ever the dreamer. Romance literally embraces you on every street corner here, be it the way the cobbles shimmer like silver after the rain, the ...

Lisbon has been voted the second best place to visit this year by online news portal Best European Destinations. Hopes were high that Portugal could keep the 2014 distinction which saw Porto judged as Europe's "best" place to go, but the French ...

Miguel Arruda studied sculpture at Lisbon's Faculty of Fine Arts, where he would later become a professor, and serves as chair of its board of directors. He studied architecture at Lisbon's Technical University. He is a furniture designer for ...

The surprising thing about touching down at Lisbon Airport is how fast, heading south in a car, you find yourself transported into deep countryside. I arrived on a mild October morning, was met there by my old friend Martin Earl, and within a few ...

There are over a million bridges around the world. Some long, some short, some spectacular and some are amazing feats of architecture. Here are a few... Bridges were built as a way to transport objects and people across waters. The Romans were ...